Mary Robison

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  • Bibliography:
    9 Books
  • First Book:
    June 1979
  • Latest Book:
    October 2018
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Book List in Order: 9 titles

  • Days

    "Robison is both wise and entertaining, a technician with a sense of humor, a minimalist with a good eye for what can be salvaged from lives of quiet desperation." -- The New York Times Book Review The population of Mary Robison's fiction is the stu...

  • Oh!

    ""At first, Oh! seems a satire, a sitcom stripped of its sentiment and foolishness. But it is far more. Mary Robison is trying to show us how the the incredibly complicated dance of family life works."" -- The New YorkerThose who know Mary Robison's...

  • Amateur's Gd to Night

  • Believe Them

  • Subtraction

    "Robison raises sitcom wit to the level of real emotional situations, real comedy and real art." -- The Chicago Tribune"Subtraction stands out as a high"wire act of the novel form -- taut in expression yet rich with humanity, expertly crafted and ...

  • Why Did I Ever

    “Tense, moving, and hilarious . . . [A] dark jewel of a novel.” -- Francine Prose, O, The Oprah MagazineThree husbands have left her. I.R.S. agents are whamming on her door. And her beloved cat has gone missing. She's back and forth between Mela...

  • Tell Me

    “Robison has a poet's eye for the unconscious surrealism of commercial America.” -- The New York Times Book ReviewTell Me reflects the early brilliance as well as the fulfilled promise of Mary Robison's literary career. In these stories -- most ...

  • One D.O.A., One on the Way

    "Robison's minimalism is more like a slap in the face: it's short, it stings, and you wonder who in tarnation did that to you." -- The New York TimesEnter Eve. Based in New Orleans, she's a location scout for a movie production company and complacen...

  • An Amateur's Guide to the Night

    "Mary Robison's short stories are short, subtle, and substantial . . . Her ironic sense of detail bursts from every sentence." -- VogueAn Amateur's Guide to the Night stands as a perfect example of Mary Robison's beloved narrative style: purposeful,...



Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Mary Robison has published 9 books.

Mary Robison does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, An Amateur's Guide to the Night, was published in October 2018.

The first book by Mary Robison, Days, was published in June 1979.

No. Mary Robison does not write books in series.
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